Historical ground the role of history in contemporary landscape architecture John Dixon Hunt.

By: Hunt, John Dixon
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2014Description: xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415814133Subject(s): Landscape architecture | Landscape designDDC classification: 712
Contents:
Preliminary orientations -- History as geology, topography and weather -- Examples of history in earlier landscape architecture (Renaissance Rome, Désert de Retz, Les Buttes Chaumont) -- Five Paris sites: a scale of contemporary interventions and inventions -- History found and exploited in a specific place today -- History "invented" for a site today -- Land art, garden festivals & historical ground -- Afterword/afterlife.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.

Preliminary orientations -- History as geology, topography and weather -- Examples of history in earlier landscape architecture (Renaissance Rome, Désert de Retz, Les Buttes Chaumont) -- Five Paris sites: a scale of contemporary interventions and inventions -- History found and exploited in a specific place today -- History "invented" for a site today -- Land art, garden festivals & historical ground -- Afterword/afterlife.

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